Monday, January 1, 2018

First Game of 2018, Back to the Realms and the Nentir Vale

Still on my Christmas break-vacation so been playing quite a bit of D&D 5.

I am not sure whether I mentioned it or not but I am merging my Forgotten Realms and my Into the Nentir Vale campaigns. It is not much of a stretch really. The original intent for 4e and the Nentir Vale was to place it in the Realms, so I have that justification and plenty of material to work with.

Truthfully the Keep on the Shadowfll could be located anywhere. The Nentir Vale, Cormyr of outside of Denver for all the difference it makes for the characters. Thankfully there are resources for me to use. The Forgotten Realms Wiki has entries on both Winterhaven and the Shadowfell Keep.

This week after some initial investigations the revised characters entered the Shadowfell Keep.

It has been going great and everyone is enjoying themselves.

I now need to work out some of the Raven Queen details. I know a lot of gods in the Forgotten Realms are dead, come back, are dead again. So finding one isn't going to be the problem, settling on one is. In 4e the Raven Queen is the new Goddess of Death having been given the mantle when the previous god was killed. In my 4e game before I assumed it was Nerul, but now I think I am going to go with Bhaal.

So far the 4e to 5e conversion is working out great. I am looking forward to seeing how the other adventures fare.